Bloomsbury Classics Explained

Bloomsbury Classics are a series of small-format hardback novels published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK, not to be confused with a similarly named series of paperbacks published in the US.

Included in this series:

• Across the Bridge by Mavis Gallant
• Angel, All Innocence and Other Stories by Fay Weldon^[1]
• At The Jerusalem by Paul Bailey
• Bad Girls by Mary Flanagan
• The Birds of the Air by Alice Thomas Ellis
• Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
• Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
• Carol by Patricia Highsmith
• The Choir by Joanna Trollope
• Christmas Stories selected by Giles Gordon^[2]
• Cocktails at Doney's by William Trevor
• Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
• The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien^[3]
• The Double Bass by Patrick Suskind^[4]
• Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje^[5]
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
• Ghost Stories selected by Giles Gordon^[6]
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Green Water, Green Sky by Mavis Gallant
• The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
• In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
• Jimmy and the Desperate Woman by D. H. Lawrence
• Keepers of the House by Lisa St Aubin de Terán
• The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame
• A Little Stranger by Candia McWilliam
• Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore

• The Lover by Marguerite Duras
• Old Soldiers by Paul Bailey
  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Orlando by Virginia Woolf^[7]
• Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
• The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
• Perfume by Patrick Suskind^[8]
• The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
• The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer^[9]
• The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
• Setting Free the Bears by John Irving
• Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
• The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen^[10]
• Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
• This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
• Twelve Dancing Princesses by The Brothers Grimm
• A Village Affair by Joanna Trollope
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood

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Notes and References

1. Book: Weldon, Fay . Angel, all innocence, and other stories . Bloomsbury Pub . London . 1995 . 0-7475-2104-2 . 37221179.
2. Book: Gordon, Giles . Christmas stories . Bloomsbury Pub . London . 1995 . 0-7475-2312-6 . 38174141.
3. Book: O'Brien, Edna . The country girls . Plume . New York, N.Y. . 2002 . 0-452-28343-4 . 50146333.
4. Book: Süskind, Patrick . Hofmann . Michael, August 25- . The double-bass . Bloomsbury . London . 1997 . 0-7475-3723-2 . 39181577.
5. Book: Ondaatje, Michael . The English patient . Bloomsbury . London . 1992 . 0-7475-1254-X . 28023034 . The English Patient . Michael Ondaatje.
6. Book: Gordon, Giles . Ghost stories . Bloomsbury . London . 1996 . 0-7475-2914-0 . 43237943.
7. Book: Orlando (Bloomsbury Classics) . 1993 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 7961303M .
8. Book: Süskind, Patrick . Woods . John E. . Perfume : the story of a murderer . New York . 1986 . 0-394-55084-6 . 13524729.
9. Book: Mortimer, Penelope . The pumpkin eater . London . 2015 . 978-0-241-24010-6 . 913793814.
10. Book: Andersen, H. C. . Gordon . Giles . The snow queen & other fairy tales . Bloomsbury . London . 1996 . 0-7475-2915-9 . 41454146.